This one is for the serious aromatic lovers – garlic, leek and parsley- this recipe has it all in generous portions.I am thankful that I am not allergic to to any of the aromatic vegetables. I have a colleague in Italy who is allergic to garlic and I don’t know how he overcome meal time … [Read more…]

I say, I am becoming quite good at this! This is my third Lapis and all three times, they have turned out deliciously successful. The first two cakes were baked during Chinese New Year. The strangest compliment I’ve received was when a friend told me that my Lapis was really good because her dog had … [Read more…]

When I first saw this recipe in Chef Gregoire Michaud’s Never Skip Dessert last year, I had eagerly bookmarked it. I remember thinking to myself, this is like a creme brulee in a banana – as opposed to the banana in creme brulee which I had made before…   The clever quirkiness of this dish appeals to me and the recipe … [Read more…]

This is for all the pound cake lovers out there. I fail to track the number of pound cake recipes I had worked through Tish Boyle’s The Cake Book. I think very soon, I would find myself baking through the whole Cake Book – it is just so reliably good.This recipe is modified from Tish Boyle’s Rich Marble … [Read more…]

As you may already suspect by now, I love pasta – it may even be safe to say that I enjoy all food Italian. I had concluded many years ago when I visited Rome twice in a short span of 3 months, that one has to be really unlucky to get bad food in Italy. … [Read more…]

Till date, I have made 3 different tart recipes from Bourke Street Bakery’s cookbook. My favourite being the ginger brulee tart. The short crust pastry in BSB’s cookbook is one of my favourite as well. Hence, it is only natural that I return to them again. To be honest, I did not enjoy this Chocolate Ganache … [Read more…]